NFL Draft Running Back Prospect Rankings, Comps, Outlooks (Episode 852 with Evan Silva, Mike Renner, Adam Levitan)
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🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva continue their NFL Draft Prospect series with CBS Sports’ Mike Renner by dissecting a 2025 Running Back class overflowing with franchise-altering talent.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How historic is this Running Back class?
- Why Omarion Hampton Isn't Renner's #2 rated back
- Which consensus high-rated back doesn't crack Mike's top 10
- How translatable is Cam Skattebo's game?
- How the 6th year Senior who only had 13 carries in 2024 cracks Mike Renner's Top 10 RBs
Timestamps:
2:55 - The State of the 2025 RB Class
4:16 - Ashton Jeanty
7:58 - Dylan Sampson
11:16 - Omarion Hampton
14:16 - Cam Skettebo
16:39 - Jordan James
19:03 - Quinshon Judkins
21:15 - TreyVeon Handerson
23:33 - Jacory Croskey-Merritt
26:16 - RJ Harvey
29:08 - Damian Martinez
30:32 - Devin Neal
31:32 - Kaleb Johnson
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 852 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:21.4 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:22.3 | As always, joined by Evan Silva and the NFL draft. |
| 0:25.1 | Just a few short weeks away, we are in the process of getting to know all of the prospects |
| 0:29.7 | who will be affecting fantasy and props this upcoming season. |
| 0:33.6 | For this, we are joined by Old Friend of the Show. |
| 0:37.2 | The great Mike Renner of Draft Prospect Evaluation World, Renner, how's it going now? |
| 0:43.3 | It's going great. |
| 0:44.0 | I am excited. |
| 0:44.7 | This running back class is so sick, diving into this. |
| 0:47.8 | It's going to be a fun episode. |
| 0:49.3 | For sure. |
| 0:50.1 | Evan, how's it going today? |
| 0:52.2 | It's going all right. |
| 0:54.5 | Running back is my favorite position to watch. |
| 0:58.9 | I just feel like there's something intrinsic about a dude who like, you know, about like |
| 1:05.4 | 25-yard runs or 60-yard runs or whatever. |
| 1:08.3 | Like you, they make you feel a certain way, like a big Derek Henry run, |
| 1:12.3 | you know, the Beast Mode run by Marshawn Lynch, you know, Sequin all this past season, even like |
| 1:18.0 | Chris Johnson when he would get out into the open field, Adrian Peterson, when that head would |
| 1:22.1 | start a bobbin, you know, he was going the distance. Just awesome runs make you feel a certain way. |
| 1:29.0 | And so I love watching the running back position. |
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